Tokyo Beats Istanbul, Madrid To Win 2020 Olympic Hosting Rights.




Tokyo has won the right to host the 2020 Olympics, overcoming apathy by the Japanese public and a recent nuclear accident to get the Summer Games for the second time. The Japanese capital was the bookmakers’ favorite leading into this weekend’s meeting of International Olympic Committee members in Buenos Aires, they defeated Madrid and Istanbul today in a vote by the IOC.
Madrid was eliminated in a first round of voting after tying for second place with Istanbul, setting up the final vote won by Tokyo. The winning bid to stage sports’ biggest event came on the city’s second straight attempt. While a lack of public enthusiasm doomed its bid for the 2016 Olympics, a March survey found 70 percent of Tokyo residents were in support this time. The government also billed the Olympics as a way to help Japan recover from a 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Parliament passed two motions in favor of the bid and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke into a song during a March presentation to the IOC’s evaluation panel in which he said hosting the event was a long-held dream.

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  1. Olayiwola Gamaliel8 September 2013 at 06:34

    All the cities av their specific achilles heel. Madrid, inspite of messi and CR7 headlining their bid campaign, has a terrible unemployment rate coupled with econmic crises. One wonders why they wanna bite more than they can chew. (Its citizens would surely protest)..as for syria,d fact that it borders "syria" is a huge turn-off, we cnt afford to risk d lives of athletes al cos of a sporting event. D "1st muslim city" excuse doesn't buy it for me. As for Great tokyo, barring any natural disaster, im sure they would give d world d best olympiad ever....I daresay robots will b officials. Does Korea/Japan 2002 world cup come to mind?

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  2. Anonymous8 September 2013 at 07:55

    I can remeber the techy Korea-Japan world cup, Tokyo would definitely prepare a lot of Robotic hardware to showcase. Laudable analysis @olayiwola

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